Can.



No. 722,025. PATENTED MAR. 3, 1903.

J. KROEHLER.

CAN.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 27, 1902- IIO MODEL.

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UNiTnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOE KROEIILER, OF QUINCY, MINNESOTA.

CAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 722,025, dated March 3, 1903.

Application filed June 27, 1902. Serial No. 113,443. (No model.)

Thisinvention relates to cans used for holding liquids, from which cans such liquids are to be taken from time to time as required for use.

The particular liquids which I have in view to be contained in the can embodying myinvention are kerosene and gasolene.

The object of this invention is to obtain a can in which liquids will be safely stored and from which such liquids can be readily taken in small quantities without leakage.

Afurther objectoftheinvention is to obtain a can of the kind named which will be economical in construction and durable, not liable to get out of order, and easily manipulated by one not experienced in the use thereof.

In the drawings referred to, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a can embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, on an enlarged scale, of the cover of the can; and Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view, also on an enlarged scale, of a part of the upper end of the can, showing the delivery-spout of the can and the parts adjacent thereto.

A reference-letter applied to designate a given part is used to indicate such part throughout the several figures of the drawings wherever the same appears.

A is the body part of the can, and a is a pivotal projection to such body part. There are two of such pivotal projections a a, one on each side of the body part A, and the can is supported thereon in frame B. Frame B comprises the risers b b,.provided with the bearing-recess b, the horizontal connection b extending from one leg of the frame B to the other leg on the same side of the can A, and b is a connection extending from one of the legs or risers b on one side of the can to the corresponding leg or riser on the opposite side of such can.

b b are rivets securing risers b, connections 12*, and connections 19 together.

0 is the bail to can A.

D is a well on the top of can A and to one side of such top.

E is an ordinary screw-plug, which is removed when liquid is to be poured into the can and which is replaced when the can is to be closed tightly.

F is a curved delivery-spout through which liquid is designed to be drawn from the can A. Delivery-spout F is longitudinally movable in the globe or ball G, and such globe or ball G is movable in the screw-threaded plug H. Plug H is not necessarily screw-threaded; but I prefer to so construct it, as it may then be put in place in the top of the can in the same manner as is the common screw-threaded plug E, heretofore referred to. Plug H is also preferably made of ductile sheet-metal pieces h h, provided, respectively, with the corresponding screw-threads h and with the flanges h h, which fit reasonably close to the globe or ball G. Part h is provided with the screw-threads I, which fit into corresponding screw-threads in the top J of can A.

By the construction of the delivery-pipe F, hereinbefore described, and illustrated in the drawings, the pipe may be lengthened as desired, and there is also obtained a universal joint by means of which when the can is nearly emptied the pipe F may be put in postition to deliver liquid into a vessel, as a lamp, having a small orifice to which the pipe F is directed, as well as such deliverypipe can be so directed when the can is full or nearly so.

K is the cover to well D, and k is the han dle to cover K.

j" is the stopper to delivery-pipe F. Stopper f may be used to close the delivery-pipe at all times except when the pipe is actually in use-that is, liquid flowing therethrough. (See Fig. 1.)

When liquid is to be poured from the can, the can A is tilted on the pivotal projections a a and the delivery-spout is directed to the vessel to be filled. The tilting of the can is continued until a suflicient quantity of liquid has flowed through the delivery-spout, after which the can is turned back to its initial position, the delivery-spout F is returned to the well D, and the cover K is put in place on the well. The stopper fmay be put in the end of the delivery-pipe F, if preferred.

When the can A is to be filled, it may be lifted ofi the frame B, the plug E removed, and liquid poured into the can, after which the plug E may be replaced and the can again mounted in the frame B on the pivotal projections a a.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In acan, the combination of a frame provided with recesses, a can-body, pivotal proj ections on the can-body respectively arranged to fit in the recesses of the frame, a well built on the upper end of the can-body and adjacent to one edge of such upper end, and a curved delivery-spout in the well, such delivery-spout provided with a universal joint and longitudinally movable in the universal joint.

2. In a can, the combination of a can-body, a well on the upper end of the can-body, a delivery-spout curved at its upper end, a universal joint consisting of a ball, such delivery-spout extending through the ball and longitudinally movable therein, and a plug in which the ball is socketed, with means to attach the plug to the upper end of the can and within the well.

Signed and executed at Quincy, Olmstead county, Minnesota, this 12th day of June, 1902.

JOE KROEHLER. 

